Synonyms of the word

stringency

• n. A rigorous imposition of standards.
• n. A tightness or constriction.
• n. A scarcity of money or credit.

conscientiousness

• n. The state or characteristic of being conscientious.

deficiency

• n. (uncountable) Inadequacy or incompleteness.
• n. (countable) An insufficiency, especially of something essential to health.
• n. (geometry) The amount by which the number of double points on a curve is short of the maximum for curves…
• n. (geometry) The codimension of a linear system in the corresponding complete linear system.

lack

• n. (obsolete) A defect or failing; moral or spiritual degeneracy.
• n. A deficiency or need (of something desirable or necessary); an absence, want.
• v. (transitive) To be without, to need, to require.
• v. (intransitive) To be short (of or for something).
• v. (intransitive) To be in want.
• v. (obsolete) To see the ‘lack’ in (someone or something); to find fault with, to malign, reproach.

painstakingness

• n. The state or characteristic of being painstaking; the giving of careful attention to details.

strictness

• n. (uncountable) The state or quality of being strict.
• n. (countable) The result or product of being strict.

tightness

• n. The quality or degree of being tight.

want

• v. (transitive) To wish for or to desire (something).
• v. (intransitive, now dated) To be lacking, not to exist.
• v. (transitive) To lack, not to have (something).
• v. (transitive, colloquially with verbal noun as object) To be in need of; to require (something).
• v. (intransitive, dated) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
• n. (countable) A desire, wish, longing.
• n. (countable, often followed by of) Lack, absence.
• n. (uncountable) Poverty.
• n. Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
• n. (Britain, mining) A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequent deposition took place.